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Myanmar stories: 137 news summaries

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Junta Cremates Protesters

Crackdown carries on, as soldiers arrest more activists and the wounded are refused treatment

Oct 7, 07 5:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Burma's army is burning the bodies of activists in secret cremations, hiding their true death count forever, the Sunday Times reports. Locals near Rangoon report trucks are driving by a crematorium at night as smoke rises constantly from its chimneys. Rumors of victims burnt alive have swept the city,... More »

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United Nations • Tiananmen Square • Red Cross • Myanmar • Burma • Buddhist monks • junta • Rangoon • humanitarian workers • omen • superstition

How the World Dropped the Ball on Burma

And how we can
pick it back up

Oct 7, 07 11:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - International policy on Myanmar is at an impasse because the world went two different ways on the military junta—the US chose isolation while its neighbors chose constructive engagement—and both strategies failed. The country has gone from “antidemocratic embarrassment and humanitarian disaster” to “serious threat” to security,... More »

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China • drugs • India • Japan • Myanmar • Burma • ASEAN • human trafficking

World Pressure Bears Down
on Burma

Protesters around globe stage protests
as US weighs sanctions

Oct 6, 07 10:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Protesters around the world staged a series of rallies today to protest Burma's crackdown on dissent and show support for the nation's monks. The protests began in New Zealand and were to continue in big cities throughout the world at noon local time, the BBC reported. The US and other... More »

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United Nations • protests • Myanmar • Burma • Aung San Suu Kyi • Humanitarian • Gambari

UN Envoy Sees Hopeful Signs
in Burma

Junta's overtures to dissident Suu Kyi 'historic opportunity'

Oct 5, 07 6:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - The UN's envoy to Burma told the Security Council today that a proposed meeting between the country's military leader and detained activist Aung San Suu Kyi was a "historic opportunity"—but only a first step toward ending mistrust that contributed to the government's recent crackdown. The US ambassador... More »

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Myanmar • Burma • Aung San Suu Kyi • Ban Ki-Moon

Facebook Users Hook Up—With Fellow Burmese Monk Backers

300K mobilize through social networking site

Oct 5, 07 1:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mammoth networking site Facebook is triggering a massive mobilization of protesters around the world who will hit the streets this weekend in support of the Burmese monks, Wired writes. Nearly 300,000 people have joined the Facebook group "Support the Monks' Protest" since a story on the movement broke... More »

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social networking • Facebook • Mark Zuckerberg • protests • Myanmar • Burma • monks

Envoy Leaves Burma After Talks

Warned junta against quelling protests, met Suu Kyi this morning

Oct 2, 07 9:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari left Burma today after meeting with a top general and a second meeting with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, released from house arrest for the talks. Gambari, who was attempting to open dialog between the military junta and dissidents whose protests were brutally suppressed last... More »

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human rights • Myanmar • Burma • Aung San Suu Kyi • Yangon • Ibrahim Gambari

Hunt's On for Burma's
Hero Bloggers

Cyber dissidents on the lam

Oct 1, 07 9:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Burmese bloggers whose accounts and photos of the Saffron Revolution and the brutal crackdown by the military dictatorship riveted the world last week are now  being hunted by authorities, reports the Times of London. With the Internet shut down and the streets swarming with troops, the bloggers have gone underground. More »

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blog • blogger • Myanmar • Burma • Buddhist monks • Saffron Revolution • Ko Latt • Arca • Sun • Superman • eyes

UN Burma
Envoy Meets
Activist Leader

Suu Kyi freed briefly from 12-year house arrest for key sitdown

Sep 30, 07 11:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - The United Nations' envoy to Burma met briefly today with pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to discuss the violent crackdown on anti-government demonstrations, reports AP. The UN representative first met with leaders of the military junta, which continued to lock down the nation's largest cities in the wake of ... More »

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United Nations • Myanmar • Burma • Aung San Suu Kyi

UN Envoy Lands in Myanmar

Regime restores internet links but standoff with protesters continues

Sep 29, 07 6:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Troops faced off with several hundred pro-democracy protesters again today in central  Yangon as a UN envoy arrived in Myanmar to try to persuade military rulers to negotiate peacefully with demonstrators. There were scattered reports of violence, but no gunfire. With soldiers stationed on every corner and shopping malls, grocery... More »

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Myanmar • Burma protest

Website Exposes Burma Brutality

Expat portal describes unreported police savagery

Sep 27, 07 2:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - Eyewitness accounts posted on a Burmese expat site offer rare details of Myanmar's brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. One post today described an early-morning raid on a monastery where soldiers broke down the gate with a truck, and attacked monks, along with women and children in their care, with bamboo... More »

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Norway • Myanmar • Burma • Buddhist monks • Democratic Voice of Burma

9 Killed in Burmese Crackdown

Japanese reporter among dead as troops scatter protesters

Sep 27, 07 12:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Burmese troop forcibly scattered some 70,000 protesters for a second day today, with gunfire claiming the lives of at least nine—even as leaders around the world called for restraint. One of the dead is reportedly a Japanese photographer, spawning fears that the junta is targeting journalists to prevent... More »

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Myanmar • Burma • Buddhist monks • Burma protest • junta • Yangon

5 Monks Killed by Burma Police

Monks continue to march against military despite violence

Sep 26, 07 10:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Five monks are reported dead and many are wounded after riot police fired at pro-democracy demonstrators, beat them with rifle butts and arrested more than 100  today in continuing protests in Yangong, Myanmar. Security forces surrounded six monasteries; as monks approached troops fired tear gas and live rounds over the... More »

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protests • Myanmar • Burma • Buddhist monks

Shots Fired at Burma Protest

Monks continue march as tensions with police escalate

Sep 26, 07 3:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Buddhist monks and pro-democracy activists clashed with riot police today as they continued their protest in defiance of the Myanmar regime's ban on public assembly. Police in Yangon fired warning shots and tear gas, chased and beat monks, dragged protesters into waiting trucks, and beat their shields with batons while... More »

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Myanmar • Burma

Bush Unloads on Burmese Junta

Prez announces new sanctions, visa ban at UN

Sep 25, 07 1:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush told the UN General Assembly today that the US will tighten economic sanctions on Burma and impose a travel ban on its military junta leaders. The US has long maintained an embargo against the country, which is now in its eighth day of anti-junta protests. “The people’... More »

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Middle East • Zimbabwe • human rights • Sudan • Cuba • economic sanctions • Myanmar • Burma • human rights abuse • Aung San Suu Kyi • George W. Bush

Burma's Monks Defy Crackdown

Junta warns of action against protests

Sep 25, 07 6:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pro-democracy protests in Myanmar continued for an eighth day today, with tens of thousands of  Buddhist monks, joined by students, taking to the streets in Yangon in defiance of government orders. The ruling junta threatened Monday night to crack down on the demonstrations, instructing the monks to return to their... More »

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Myanmar • Burma • Buddhist monks • Burma protest • junta

Suu Kyi Greets Protesters
in Myanmar

Detained Nobel laureate allowed to pray briefly with monks

Sep 22, 07 10:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - The nonviolent protests that have rocked Myanmar got a boost from opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi today as she greeted Buddhist monks outside the house where she has been a prisoner for four years. Guards loosened up the roadblock that has been in place since the protests began and... More »

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Myanmar • Buddhist monks • Aung San Suu Kyi

Bush Calls For Freedom in China

He warns that world will be watching during Olympics

Sep 7, 07 6:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush yesterday called on Chinese officials to demonstrate a commitment to "greater openness and tolerance" before the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In a speech to business executives in Sydney on the eve of the Asia-Pacific summit, Bush emphasized the need for greater freedoms throughout Asia and warned China that... More »

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China • Russia • Australia • democracy • Vladimir Putin • Hu Jintao • uranium • APEC • Asia Pacific Summit • Myanmar

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